drone strike last week killed a toddler and injured two women the top u.s. commander formally apologized but karzai wants a different apology one from president obama himself for harm done to afghan civilians during the war the u.s. response don't hold your breath there is not a need for the united states to apologize to afghanistan quite the contrary we have sacrificed in and supported them in their democratic progress and in tackling the insurgency and al-qaeda but the insurgency isn't over and in parts of afghanistan residents are caught between hatred of international forces and fear of the taliban this man says he lost two sons in an errant nato attack. my children feel fear when they see a helicopter and run away to the rooms there is a lot of fear. but once the sun goes down another threat emerges be the one that any white knight tell about the run there in the district government is just their name but there is no real security when. and afghan forces are still heavily dependent on the last. of the us troops stop helping us as there are a lot of thre